Poll

You may have noticed a poll on the sidebar.  By me having the poll, it does not admit to any action, rather just a collecting of information, if you will, to possibly act in the near future.  

Please vote - you know, for informational gathering reasons. 

Blog Awards

Back a couple weeks ago my friend Kim gave me a blog award...I was supposed to follow-up soon, but I am just a slacker.  Better late than never, right?  Here we go.  I will pass the award on to:

Ryann - We met in Virginia.  When Nathan wrecked the car and we didn't have a car to drive she and her hubby let us borrow their second car.  She is always leaving supportive comments on here, and when we lost a baby last spring I was touched to receive a box of beautiful Iris' from her. 

Abby - I also met Abby in Virginia.  She was the last person we saw there before we pulled out of town.  We share a love of kittens and politics, although our views fall on opposite sides of the line. :)  I love reading her blog because her commentary on even the everyday things is so entertaining.

Chelsea - I lived just up the street from her growing up.  We were fast friends and shared a love of The Greenery and caroling and washing our clothes in Bear Lake (hehe).  I hadn't seen or talked to her since my wedding ... and I just recently found her on facebook.  I love her and am so glad we're in contact again!

Kimberly - I don't see a rule about awarding who awarded me...so she gets one.  I met Kimberly in Newport.  She was a HUGE part of the success and fun of the choir there and once she moved it just wasn't the same.  She is a tremendous piano player and we had many quality hours spent together scrapbooking in the cultural hall.   

Lori - I have known Lori since high school - we were the piano players for the Jazz Band my senior year.  Since I found her online just this year, she has inspired me to want to pull out my running shoes again.   She's had quite a few challenges in her life and remains positive - a good role model!

Ann - She and her hubby are the only ones who have been nice to us from this ward...no,  really.  They adopted an adorable little girl right about the same time we moved in and she has answered MANY questions of mine on adoption. She is so happy and cheerful all the time - even with painful green things in her mouth. :)

Kristen - We were band geeks together in high school....we had some good times. Drunk Indians, screwdrivers, Farrs, Burger King, Windsor, Marching Band, ugly band dresses, etc, etc, etc... She just had an adorable baby boy - and her husband is going to med school.  Oh, and she LOVES Halloween too. :)

Okay, those of you awarded, here's what you do.  

1-Put the logo up on your blog

2-Link to the person who you received your award from

3- Nominate 7 other blogs

4 - Put links to those blogs on your post

5 - Leave a message on the blogs you've awarded.

10,000

According to my sitemeter thingy I had my 10,000th visitor this past week - on the 25th at 6:11am to be exact.  

Thanks to all of you out there who listen to my ramblings and encourage and support me (and Nathan).  It helps more than you will ever know. 

 

The Music Man

I promised Nathan's recital and I had just spaced it - thanks Cindy for the reminder! :)

Due to some stress and last minute crises (is that how you do that plural??) we have no video of the recital.  We do have an audio recording and I am going to attempt to make a video using graduation pics and recital pics with that music as the backdrop.  That might take a bit, so here is this in the mean time.  I did it in an external slideshow, so that if you don't want to look at the pics you won't have to scroll down forever to get past them. 

124 steps

I want to get in shape...and so I have thought of a challenge for myself: hike the Old Main Hill stairs everyday.   It may not seem like much, but I counted today and there are 124 stairs from bottom to top.  I was able to drag myself up twice tonight - which is honestly better than I thought I'd do...I thought we'd be calling the paramedics halfway.  So I am going to try and do it everynight, as many times as I can. 

Eternal Band Geeks

Nathan is done with school - and thus done with band and I was looking forward to a fall that didn't include football games.  (Unless of course we wanted to go...as spectators only)  Well, that all changed when Dr Rohrer asked me to be the band photographer and for us to make the movie again this year.  We said yes and have had quite a good time.  We still know enough people in the band that it is fun - plus it gives us something to do with our time. 

Our first gig as official band techie geeks. :)

There are several facets of this gig that are neat-o.  First: The press pass.  With this one piece of laminated paper on a lanyard around my neck I can go anywhere I want.  On the field, out the back gates, the press box.  Second: The press box.  Nathan has to go up ontop of the pressbox each show to record the pre-game and halftime shows.  I took photos from up there this last game - and it is not a place to go if you are afraid of heights.  It is WAAAAYY up there (see pic), BUT on the way back down through the actual press box we get food....and not just any food...catered meals from local restaurants.  So I snap some pics of the band, grab a bite and then make my way back to the opposite side of the stadium to get some candid shots in the stands.  Third: Freedom.  After halftime we can take off if we want.  Or we can stay if we want.  When we were in the band we had to stay until the end of the game (which is oftentimes painful because our team SUCKS) and then play the fight song and then trudge ALL the way back to the FAR parking lot where they make us park.

This is us yesterday

Overall, it is a pretty sweet gig. :)

Auntie and Uncle duty

**updated 9-22-08**  Here's the picture I promised.  Cute huh?

We had quite an eventful weekend.  My brother entrusted the care of his 6 month old to us from Friday night to Sunday night - and before you say 'awwww, fun'...let me share the deets.

Austin is a cute little turd...BUT he's teething, has a cold AND got his 6 month shots on Friday.  Poor little duffer.  He had a rough couple days - as did his Auntie Holly and Uncle Nathan. ;)   We did learn that he LOVES to take baths, he just lays in the water and kicks his legs and thrashes his arms around.  Frank was quite curious about the mini-human and didn't leave my side the whole weekend.  Winston, on the other hand, hid under the bed or in the closet or in the bowels of the couch the entire time...I don't even think he came out to eat - which is ok, he has quite sufficient fat stores to get him through a few days.   Overall, we did have fun with Austin here and it will be fun to have him again sometime...and yes, we still want kids (Although I wasn't so sure at 3:45am  Sunday morning after he had yet to sleep longer than 2 hours since we picked him up). 

Still haven't found the cord to upload pics - if I do find it I'll get one of him in the tub up here.  

Just hear me out

So I have been reading/watching all the stuff online about 9/11 today. A couple thoughts:

1 - Why must the slogan be 'We will never forget'? Aren't we taught to forgive and forget?

2 - To all of you non-conspiracy folk, just answer me this: Suppose you are a Secret Service Agent. If after the planes hit the towers and it was obvious that there was a hijacking situation in progress and there were MULTIPLE aircraft still unaccounted for, why would you leave the President where he is (the location was made public through press releases sent the day before...so would-be hijackers would have known EXACTLY where Bushie was) instead of getting him to a secure location? Wanna know what I think? No, well I'm going to tell you anyway. You would have gotten Bushie to a safe place UNLESS you KNEW he was out of danger...and how would you know that? Because certain cronies (yet to be identified) had made it clear that Bushie was safe reading with the kids...no planes were coming from him.

Your thoughts?